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Female Figure

Artist Unknown

Datecirca 2500–2400 BCE

MediumMarble

Dimensions20 1/8 x 5 x 2 in. (51.1 x 12.7 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes

Object number86.5

On View

On view

ProvenancePrivate collection, Massachusetts, reportedly acquired in Switzerland early 1960s (per Komor, see file); with Mathias Komor, New York; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes, Winston-Salem, NC, 1978; on loan to NCMA, 1984-86; given to NCMA, 1986.Published ReferencesPat Getz-Preziosi, Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections (exhibition catalogue) (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1987), cat. no. 53, illus. (2 views, b-w).

Hallie Inglehart Austen, The Heart of the Goddess (Berkeley: Wingbow Press, 1990), 94, illus. 96, credit 168.

L. E. [Lisa Eveleigh], "Private Collectors Share Their Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1992), mentioned 12, illus. (b-w) 13.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 9.

Pat Getz-Preziosi, "Five Sculptors," Cycladica: Studies in Memory of N.P. Goulandris, J.L Fitton, ed. Proceedings of the Seventh British Museum Classical Colloquium, June 1983 (London, 1984), pls. 28-30 (5).

Anderson Ferrell, "Female Figurine," in The Store of Joys, Huston Paschal, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1997), 3-5, illus. (color) 3.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Female Figurine, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 24, illus. (color).

Pat Getz-Gentle, Personal Styles in Early Cycladic Sculpture (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001), 159, checklist no. 5.

Betty Adcock, "Cycladic Figure," Tar River Poetry 38, no. 2 (Spring 1998), Greenville, East Carolina University, 23-24. Reprinted in Intervale: New and Selected Poems, by Betty Adcock (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 40-41, 180, illus. (b-w) cover.

Pat Getz-Gentle, Ancient Art of the Cyclades (exhibition catalogue) (Katonah, NY: Katonah Museum of Art, 2006), cat. no. 26.

Mary Ellen Soles, entry for Female Figurine, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 44, illus. (color) 45.
Exhibition HistoryRichmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Early Cycladic Art in North American Collections," November 9, 1987-January 10, 1988; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, February 13-May 15, 1988; San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, June 25-September 25, 1988, cat. no. 53, illus (2 views, b-w).

Katonah, NY, Katonah Museum of Art, "Ancient Art of the Cyclades," October 1-December 31, 2006, cat. no. 26.

New York, NY, The Jewish Museum, “Modigliani Unmasked,” September 15, 2017–February 4, 2018.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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